This area is a footer which provides an excellent catalog of options Udemy can offer users if they were still scrolling down to look for something more. It provides hyperlinks to various course areas, information about Udemy itself, legal and privacy notices, and also a link to control cookie settings for the user. The text is organized in an orderly and neat fashion with enough spacing between areas so as to let the user focus on one area without their eyes being disorientated from nearby text from other columns.

This area is not as great as the other parts of the Udemy web page. It has short titles and descriptions of various areas that a user can focus on depending upon their goals. However, the first option provides no hyperlink, and selecting it only brings up an image on the right side associated with the possible goal. This image is also very small, and hard to understand, as it shows text that can be incredibly small, and visual information that will not be understandable to a user unless explained in detail.

The 'Trending Courses' page is an excellent introduction to how Udemy shows its courses in other pages such as when a user is using the explore functionality. At a glance, the user can see the thumbnail for a course, the title of a course, the author(s) of the course, the rating of the course and how many people rated it, along with the cost of a course. When the user hovers over a course in this area, it will expand the details of the course in a short point format, so a user can further understand the course without being overwhelmed or exhausted by a large amount of information.

The 'Trending Now' page is very useful to get a quick overview of what courses are being looked at the majority of Udemy users. It provides columns, and under those columns are groups which many courses can be under. It shows the overall number of learners in these groups and provides a hyperlink to easily navigate to the exploration of the group in question to find courses that best fit a user.

Miles, 1905 uses an arrow symbol with a hash on it to indicate a "connecting link between two Sentences or Paragraphs, etc."

It's certainly an early example of what we would now consider a hyperlink. It actively uses a "pointer" in it's incarnation.

Are there earlier examples of these sorts of idea links in the historical record? Surely there were circles and arrows on a contiguous page, but what about links from one place to separate places (possibly using page numbers?) Indexing methods from 11/12C certainly acted as explicit sorts of pointers.

Hypothes.is + Wiki -> Global Knowledge Graph

This so-called link to computer science and prefiguring the internet is a bit too credulous here. Vannevar Bush prefigured the idea in 1945, but one can look back further to Konrad Gessner centuries before to make the same connections.

What Bush called "associative indexing" is the key idea behind the memex. Any item can immediately select others to which it has been previously linked.

Once two items are linked, tapping a button would take you from one to the other.

Ryan Holiday's Ego is the Enemy . . . and use links to give us more info . . .

Reminiscent of Cosby's old joke: When I was young, we used to walk to school--uphill--in the snow--both ways.

Good use of hyperlinks.

There might be a better term than 'blind' for this. It seems like the content itself, and the users using it, are the things that are blinded. To be blind is to be disabled -- and Instagram and other corporate services are far from that.

These corporate platforms are like walled gardens, or cult leaders, creating propaganda and structures that blind and bind behind closed doors. They are the oppressor, the users the oppressed. And all at the demise of the health of the Internet. By blocking external hyperlinks, they are actually committing a crime against the rest of the Internet, cutting off the very thing that makes the Internet powerful. Let's start calling it what it truly is, an externality, a cost on people who did not choose incur that cost.